... participating patients provide written informed consent after detailed information by the treating psychotherapist in the day hospital The original forms are stored in a closed cabinet, the patients ... positive or negative? Were you satisfied with your behaviour in or reaction on this situation? - For each therapy goal or theme: in the day hospital, you formulated the following therapy goal or theme ... are asked for the number of stays, the total number of days, and the reason for admission During the first telephone call, contacts with physicians and inpatients stays are assessed for the last...
... tumor associated antigens; (TCR): T cell receptor; (TGF): transforming growth factor; (TMZ): temozolamide; (TNF): tumor necrosis factor; (Treg): T regulatory cell; (UCLA): University of California, ... are pulsed with mRNA for the CC chemokine receptor (CCR7) in an effort to direct the CMV-specific DC to Page of 10 the lymph nodes Upon recurrence, biopsies will be evaluated for DC or CTL infiltrates, ... positive glioma patientswith recurrent grade II tumors are being enrolled Two more vaccine trials are open at University of California, San Francisco for recurrent (NCT00293423) or newly diagnosed...
... score by type of HCW (p = 0.19), with a mean post-training score of 87% for nurses, 86% for laboratory technicians, 89% for physicians and 92% for district supervisors The mean posttraining scores ... Supervision was an opportunity to correct errors because of incomprehension or unforeseen circumstances, and to morally support and motivate the HCW Supervision was done by a laboratory technician and ... testing for TB patients and HIV care and support for those co-infected with HIV [2,4] Other HCWs playing a key role in TB control, including laboratory technicians, physicians and district supervisors,...
... different for each point of the IPSS QoL score and for the low medium and high impact categories on the BII The F statistics for the PPSM Total Score, PPSMGlobal and PPSM-Pain comparisons with the ... measure The total score for this 8-item measure is obtained by adding all the raw scores for items 1–7, which gives a score range of to 49 Responses to item 8, "Would you ask your doctor for the medication ... 87 to 91, with the cumulative percent of variation at 83% Therefore the final scoring algorithm for the 12 items consisted of 1) the Global score (items 1–4 and 9– 11), 2) the Pain score (items...
... individual's perception of his or her ability to perform an action is an important mediator of health behaviors [3,5] Perception of self-efficacy is particularly important for complex activities and ... included forpatientswith heart failure The 25 papers covered 23 different self-efficacy instruments For three instruments, different versions were developed: for the Self-Efficacy Score for Diabetes ... input from experts and patients without literature searches (for instruments [21,28,33]) Overall, for the development of 12 instruments, patients' opinion was considered, for 10 instruments it...
... in the form of visual or verbal cues through an augmented reality interface As a first step towards such a system, Chau et al [16] reported a desktop augmented reality system forpatientswith ... in a uniform manner In the present case, however, we intend to route patients, each with unique characteristics The minimum distance route assuming uniformly processed packets is therefore not ... ramps, elevators, poor illumination and other potential barriers to mobility A patient is defined in the database by specifying the attribute values for the fields in the patient table For example,...
... eligible for the study and included in cohort and 2, respectively In both cohorts, patientswith main diagnosis different to hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA), orwith a malignant pathology or other organic ... goal is to involve as little effort as possible for both the patient and the physician Therefore, if using a shortened version the same information is collected but with little burden, the instrument ... the WOMAC short scales according to the pain and functional limitation short categorical scales The scores for the WOMAC domains range from to 100, with higher scores indicating worse health...
... individual's perception of his or her ability to perform an action is an important mediator of health behaviors [3,5] Perception of self-efficacy is particularly important for complex activities and ... included forpatientswith heart failure The 25 papers covered 23 different self-efficacy instruments For three instruments, different versions were developed: for the Self-Efficacy Score for Diabetes ... input from experts and patients without literature searches (for instruments [21,28,33]) Overall, for the development of 12 instruments, patients' opinion was considered, for 10 instruments it...
... function in AD patients receiving galantamine 24 mg/day for 12 months or placebo for months followed by galantamine 24 mg/day for months [51] Although patients who took galantamine 24 mg/day for 12 months ... (particularly in the basal forebrain) [13], and selective loss of nicotinic receptor subtypes in the hippocampus and cortex [12] Review Approved drugs for the treatment of AD ACh is the major neurotransmitter ... agent for AD, accounting for approximately 38% of prescriptions [19] It is a noncompetitive, reversible AChEI with a long halflife (approximately 70 hours), which allows for once-daily dosing of or...
... the intervention For example, a monitoring form was used to report patient performance (scoring 1– poor/good) and exercises were timed However, this was found to be ineffective without a sufficient ... pencil and paper and are given to the patient with instructions from the therapist A monitoring form was used to report patient performance (scoring 1– poor/good) and exercises were timed The patient ... completion in anorexia nervosa: implications for future study designs Archives of General Psychiatry 2005, 62:776-81 National Institute for Clinical Excellence: Core interventions for the treatment...
... completed an informed consent form Patients were examined using PET-CT, MRI, and Ultrasound Prior to radiation therapy, biopsies were performed for all patients, except for one for whom the recurrence ... survival rate forpatients without lymph node metastases (N-) and forpatientswith lymph node metastases (N+) The majority of patients (12/22) received SRS treatment as outpatients with curative ... forpatients without lymph node metastases (N-) and forpatientswith lymph node metastases (N+) (B) Tumor response based on clinical stage a variety of issues including the nature of the tumor...
... The scoring algorithm for the scales is similar to the scoring of the EORTC-C30 questionnaire RS are computed and linearly transformed to a - 100 scale For the scales and items, a higher score ... (EORTC-C30) before and during VMAT for Global Health Status, and physical, emotional and role functioning 3-months follow-up, patients had a significantly worse performance status Mean KPS scores ... by the EORTC-BN20 questionnaire (Table 4) The treatment of patientswith BM can consist of best supportive care, surgery or radiosurgery withor without WBRT We have included patientswith one...
... was found that tumor centre or periphery BED was important parameter influencing local tumor control rate and larger doses should be delivered for T2 tumor Therefore, more works needs to be done ... The overall local control for bulky tumors is poor Tumor size is a poor prognostic factor, and the patientsfor adjuvant chemotherapy need to be carefully selected Author details Department of ... in those with Stage II disease (Figure 1, p = 0.000) The 1- and 2-year local control rates were 75% and 60% for tumor ≤3 cm; 84% and 71% for tumor sized 3~5 cm; 55% and 14.6% for tumor sized...
... anti-malarials are more likely to be prescribed to patientswith milder disease drugs as standard of care for all patientswith SLE without contraindications Competing interests The author declares that ... among patientswith SLE Guidelines are in place recommending the influenza vaccine and pneumococcus vaccine forpatientswith rheumatoid arthritis but similar guidelines have not been developed for ... antigens (for example, foreign peptides) [6] The benefits of anti-malarials in patientswith SLE go beyond preventing infection and include prevention of disease flares and accrual of damage, with...
... materials for the professionals and patients There is a recommended protocol for multidisciplinary management and a template for clinical care presented as a guiding registration form Furthermore, ... for primary care GPs will be informed about the project, and when they agree to participate they will be instructed to send in an admission form with data on practice organization necessary for ... registration form will have baseline data on treatment issues This also will allow for within group analyses, giving information about the effectiveness of both implementation strategies separately Unfortunately,...
... warfarin forpatientswith a CHADS2 score of 1, and aspirin forpatientswith a CHADS2 score of This outcome will be measured for any time within 12 months of postrandomisation and for current ... Digoxin OR Sotolol OR Warfarin OR Amiodarone OR Current or past prescription for: a Verapamil OR b Flecainide c Metoprolol d Atenolol e Propranolol Current or past prescription for: a Aspirin OR b ... (GEEs), with information sandwich (’robust) estimates of standard error to allow for within-cluster (within-general practice) correlation for dichotomous outcomes [40] An exchangeable correlation...
... still recommend the combination of doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide followed by paclitaxel forpatientswith TNBC, in the adjuvant setting Forpatientswith metastatic disease, there is no standard ... phase II neoadjuvant study in which patients will undergo two randomizations in order to receive paclitaxel withor without carboplatin and this combination withor without bevacizumab The second ... Carmichael J: Safety and efficacy of the oral PARP inhibitor olaparib (AZD2281) in combination with paclitaxel for the firstor second-line treatment of patientswith metastatic triple-negative breast...
... in patientswith ECF In general, patientswith inflammatory bowel disease represent a high-risk group for the formation of ECF, as a result of both the process of their disease and the need for ... fistulas, with a safety profile consistent with previous studies on patientswith active CD [8] Adalimumab is also a well-tolerated treatment for CD in patients who are infliximab naive and for those ... closure in approximately twothirds of patients and has now become the cornerstone of medical therapy for FCD [2] However, some patientswith FCD are refractory or intolerant to this agent Recently,...
... this study is to improve the quality of care forpatientswith diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying individual, team, and organisational factors that predict the implementation of best ... about self-monitoring and education Second, we will collect QOF scores for diabetes and for additional items that reflect aspects of good organisation and that, on the basis of QOF scores, can be ... range For the patient-reported data, making the conservative assumption that the estimated proportion is around 50% if we sample 25 patients per practice, the standard error associated with our...
... point for each of the characteristics present in the study design, for a possible lowest score of zero and highest score of four Table gives specific examples of interventions that met criteria for ... strategy for organizational interventions to improve outcomes of patientswith Type II diabetes Medline search strategy to identify studies of organizational interventions to improve outcomes forpatients ... and statistical significance of outcomes reported The specific criteria used for each rating, along with specific examples of the reported outcomes for each rating, are shown in Table Raters were...